The WordPress header.php file is an often-underappreciated template file can actually make the difference between visitors who stick around and “drill down” into other website content, and those who simply come to the site, stay for a few seconds, and…

One of the most overlooked features of WordPress is its ability to place content outside the main post content area and into custom fields created by the website’s administrator user. These fields can be used to do just about anything,…

One of the biggest emerging web design trends of the present decade is “responsive design.” This type of web design is virtually a direct response to the proliferation of mobile devices around the world, whether in the form of smartphones…

One trend in content management has become pretty clear in recent years. Increasingly, site administrators are creating so-called “micro-sites,” or websites within a website, that contain completely different posts, styling, and other features. These micro-sites often appear in the form…

When it comes to separating a mobile website from a truly robust mobile experience, the main differentiator is typically the use of jQuery. This innovative use of JavaScript, which is generally considered the only acceptable use of the JavaScript language…

WordPress has quickly transformed from a mere content management platform to one that is now involved in managing almost every aspect of an administrator’s day. The world’s most popular content management solution can, via plugins, manage events, dates, to-do lists,…

One of the most important templates in any WordPress installation is the “comments.php” template file that is paired with virtually every single theme distributed for use with the world’s most popular content management solution. More than 60 million people rely…

WordPress has been around for the better part of a decade, and that means there are some truly massive websites and databases that get queried on a regular basis. Those queries can add up pretty quickly and, over time, they…